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Definition of Insculping
1. insculp [v] - See also: insculp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insculping
Literary usage of Insculping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookworm: An Illustrated Treasury of Old-time Literature (1888)
"... in the strict sense of writing, as distinguished from the process of engraving
or insculping upon rock or tablets of marble, or plates of metal. ..."
2. The History and Survey of London and Its Environs from the Earliest Period by B. Lambert (1806)
"... for their excellent knowledge and skill in the art of insculping figures on
grave-stones, monuments, and the like, were an ancient fellowship; ..."
3. An Examination of the Primary Argument of the Iliad by Granville Penn (1821)
"... acquired by the eye of an artist on some plain surface, before he could have
been able to proceed to the mechanical process of insculping them in stone. ..."
4. Shakspeare's comedy of the Merchant of Venice: with intr. remarks and notes by William Shakespeare (1861)
"The insculping of an angel on this coin is said to hare originated in a reference
to Pope Gregory's association of Angli and Angeli. ..."
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